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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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2023
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Last autumn, Laura's death shocked the Montgomery Family to the core. Her daughter, Isabella, turns to Laura's diaries for comfort. What she finds there-- a story that unfolded between the autumn of 1995 and spring of 1996, intrigues her with things that had never been heard before. Her mother's old employer, Franklin Butler, had threatened Laura to be silent about his criminal activity. Meanwhile, Laura's husband, Steve, has just re-opened his auto...
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"Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers" de Jules Verne est un classique de la littérature d'aventure. Le professeur Aronnax, son assistant Conseil et le harponneur Ned Land, se retrouvent pris au piège à bord d'un mystérieux sous-marin, le Nautilus, dirigé par le capitaine Nemo. Au fil de leur voyage sous-marin, ils découvrent des merveilles de la nature, mais aussi les terribles secrets du capitaine Nemo et de son navire. Avec une prose captivante...
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Una conmovedora novela protagonizada por tres inolvidables mujeres sureñas en los duros años que precedieron a la Gran Depresión.
En la Carolina del Sur de 1924, apenas recuperada de una terrible plaga que ha devastado tanto la tierra como la economía, entre pantanos infestados de caimanes y plantaciones de tabaco, tres mujeres muy distintas unirán sus destinos para luchar contra las injusticias cotidianas que atenazan sus vidas.
Gertrude, blanca...
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Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems.
Oriental adventurer Captain Rochester spun an entrancing tale to Jerusha, seafaring daughter of Captain Michael Gardiner - a story of a money ship, hidden in the turquoise waters of the South China Sea, which was nothing less than the...
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Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons that were belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all other kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems. Though just a story Jerusha Gardiner heard in childhood, it led to a strange and convoluted quest in far-off and exotic seas, triggered by the launching of the ship Huntress...
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On a shimmering morning on the Moluccan Sea young Jerusha is sent by her father, Captain Michael Gardiner, to pay a call on a mysterious brig that had arrived in the night. Not only is the dashing craft more piratical than Jess had expected but the man who hailed her as she clambered on board is as flamboyant as the vessel he commands, a very tall and very thin gentleman with jet-black hair that grew down his cheeks, wearing a green waistcoat with...
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By making Nelson O'Cain his partner, Michael Gardiner has disinherited his daughter, Jerusha, who is in far-off Massachusetts, learning the skills of a herb-woman and midwife. So, he devises the crazy idea of an arranged marriage with Nelson, to salve his conscience and set matters straight. Unconvinced, yet aware of the logic of a convenient arrangement, Nelson voyages from Borneo to Boston, bearing a letter to Jerusha that sketches out her father's...
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Condemned to death by the Sultan of Brunei, Nelson O'Cain seeks to save himself with a tattoo of a dragon, a rampant dragon with wings outstretched, the same dragon that was carved on an obelisk on a small island at the mouth of a river in Borneo. Not only was the pillar supposed to be a man who had been turned to stone, but the carved dragon was a vital clue to where Hochman the pirate buried a great treasure. Captain Michael Gardiner and his seafaring...
10) Gwen's Choice
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She never before had any choices in life and suddenly, without much warning, she was overwhelmed with serious decisions that could not be delayed.
Does Gwen Harrison dare choose a whole new life for herself or will doubts and fears overcome her?
Is it really too late?
11) The Great Quest
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The story opens in Massachusetts in 1826. After Neal Gleazen unexpectedly returns to town, he involves childhood friend Seth Woods and Seth's nephew, twenty-year-old Joe, in a dangerous sea journey to retrieve a hidden treasure. But, everything is not as it seems and Joe and Seth must come to terms with the truth and make the right choices or all will be lost. A Newbury Medal Nominee
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Extrait : "Pendant que mon oncle achève sa cigarette inspiratrice, permettez-moi, lecteur de vous adresser les plus vifs reproches : Vous avez eu grand tort, vous dis-je, retournez sur vos pas. Comment ! vous pénétrez dans l'édifice sans avoir jeté un regard sur son extérieur ! vous vous hasardez dans un labyrinthe et n'en avez pas examiné l'entrée !"
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Charles Boardman Hawes was a Newbery Medal winning author. His swashbuckling pirate stories captivated a generation of readers. Now you can go on swashbuckling adventures, smell the salt of the ocean and the gunpowder of the pirates' cannons as you set sail on the high seas. Included here are all of Hawe's novels and a short story including The Dark Frigate, "Even So," The Mutineers, and The Great Quest. Over a quarter million words of pulse pounding,...
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The independent women of Scotland stand up to a witch hunt, male fury and the power of the Church in a battle for survival in this compelling historical novel based on true events in early eighteenth century Scotland.
1703: The wild east coast of Scotland.
Returning to her home town of Pittenweem, fishwife and widow Sorcha McIntyre knows she faces both censure and mistrust. After all, this is a country where myth and legend are woven into the fabric...
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It was supposed to be a dream come true, but it's turned into a disaster.
As a hurricane barrels toward Pearl Beach, Kelsey Montgomery has the opportunity of a lifetime for a weather girl-no, a meteorologist. But her ambitions of becoming the best meteorologist in south Florida may turn into a sinking ship.
Dillon's unexpectedly trapped and can't help at all, but Julia's ready to pick up the pieces if her family can sustain the damage, and her healing...
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INCLUDES BONUS SCENE NOT AVAILABLE IN INDIVIDUAL BOOKS Award-winner, The White Sails Series is where icy winter storms, opportunistic mercenaries, uncharted lands, and a colourful crew of sailors are all lashed together by an epic love story. This complete collection includes all four books in the series. Discerning Grace. London Town, 1826. Society life is stifling enough for Grace Baxter without worrying about finding true love or happiness. Enlisting...
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"Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock's door. Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken...
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A captivating saga set on the eve of WW2 in Liverpool, where life is about to change forever for one girl.
As war breaks out so too does Molly Dearden...
Molly is used to living in the shadow of her older sister, June. When their mother died when Molly was just seven years old, June helped their grief-stricken father look after her in their tiny home in the tight-knit Edge Hill district of Liverpool.
But as her seventeenth birthday passes,...
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Austria, 1938
After years of hardship, Ella is full of hope for a better future for Austrians, and when Hitler marches into Linz, she can't help but become swept up in the euphoria of her boyfriend, Max.
But she soon realises her mistake. When she witnesses a woman being shot in the street and a childhood friend's Jewish department store is closed down, she knows she must do something.
It's a dangerous time to be a resistor, especially when her...
20) Disguise
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Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century.
1945. At the end of the second world war in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee...
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